Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, 2008, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Dissertation: “St. Thomas Aquinas’s Theology of the Episcopacy in his Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles,” director: Fr. Joseph Komonchak. Minor concentrations in historical theology and philosophy.
Undergraduate
- Foundations of Catholicism
- Theology of the Trinity
- Theology of Christ
- Theology of the Church
- Theology of the Sacraments
- Contemporary Questions in Theology (CQT): Faith and Reason
- CQT: Philosophy for Theology
- Great Christian Thinkers: St. Thomas Aquinas
- Christian Moral Principles
Graduate
- Dogmatic Theology I: Trinity, Christology, and Soteriology
- Fundamental Theology
- Theological Foundations
- Historical Foundations
- Biblical Hermeneutics
- The Church in the Modern World
- Vatican II
- Fathers and Doctors of the Church: Augustine of Hippo
- Tradition and the Development of Doctrine
- Christology
- Sacraments
- Natural Theology
- The Trinity
- Theology of the Episcopacy in St. Thomas Aquinas
- The Church’s Magisterium and its Interpretation
- Member, USCCB-Evangelical Christian Ecumenical Dialogue, 2022-present
- Thomistic Institute Speaker, 2020-present
- Academy of Catholic Theology
- Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics
- Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
- St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, senior fellow
Select Publications
- “Lectio Scripturae at the Heart of Aquinas’s Theology and Preaching,” in Thomas Aquinas: Biblical Theologian, edited by Michael Dauphinais and Roger Nutt. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2021.
- “On the Moral Liceity of Publicly Correcting the Pope,” in Defending the Faith Against Present Heresies, edited by John R. T. Lamont and Claudio Pierantoni. Waterloo, ON: Arouca Press, 2021.
- “Saint Thomas’s Theology of the Diaconate.” The Thomist 85 (2021): 539-54.
Full List
Books and book chapters
- The Ideal Bishop: Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles. Foreword by Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP. Thomistic Ressourcement Series, volume 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017.
- “Critique of Cardinal Kasper’s Proposal,” in From the Beginning: The Mission and Vocation of the Family in the Contemporary World. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2015.
- “Divinization for the New Evangelization” in Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ Through the Liturgy, edited by Fr. Andrew Hofer. OP. Hillenbrand Press, 2015.
- “Comments on Alexander W. Hall’s ‘The Burden of Proof: Aquinas and God Science’” in Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern Volume 11: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, edited by Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014: 117–22.
Articles
- “The Bishop as Icon of the Beautiful Jesus,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 43 (spring 2020) 1: 81-90.
- “Whether the Proposal to Give Communion to Divorced and Remarried Catholics Living in More Uxorio is a Development of Doctrine in Continuity with Tradition?” Anthropotes 33 (2017): 627-638.
- “The Theological and Pastoral Purposes of Aquinas’s Biblical Commentaries,” Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia 10 (2017) 3: 375-387.
Book Reviews
- Known by Nature by Anna Bonta Moreland in The Thomist 77 (2013): 162-65.
- Characters in Search of Their Author by Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) in Nova et Vetera (English edition) 1 (2003): 494–97.
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